UNISON is one of the largest unions for Police Probation and CAFCASS Service Groups, with more than 50,000 members.
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Police Staff Pay and Morale Survey 2024
In 2024 UNISON carried out a comprehensive survey of how our police staff members in England, Scotland and Wales were feeling about their pay and morale. Read the 2024 Unison Police Staff Pay and Morale Survey The survey results show that police staff in all three nations are unhappy with their pay and often unhappy […]
Police Force Shortfalls 2025/26
UNISON’s analysis of police financial forecasts show that England and Wales forces could be facing a shortfall of almost £1 billion by 2027. UNISON’s research shows that the financial budget shortfalls facing forces are getting larger. View the police force budgets here The data, based on medium-term financial plans submitted by individual police forces to […]
Probation Pay 2025
Following pay talks over the last two months, HMPPS made a provisional pay offer to the unions on 26 June. This offer, which remains confidential at this moment in time, was considered by UNISON’s Probation Committee and rejected as being inadequate to meet our members’ expectations. Our Committee agreed that if the offer was not […]
Police Staff Pay 2025
MEMBERS VOTE OVERWHELMINGLY TO ACCEPT 2025 PAY OFFER UNISON police staff members in England and Cymru have voted by an overwhelming majority of 88% to accept this year’s pay offer. Members voted as follows in our digital consultation ballot which closed on 24 October: Total members consulted: 33,192 Overall turnout in ballot: 1% Members voting […]
UNISON Police Staff ‘ Call It Out!’ Campaign
UNISON has been in the forefront of work to tackle sexual harassment/crime in the workplace for many years. Back in 2016 we partnered with the London School of Economics to undertake the first academic-led survey of the extent of sexual harassment in the police service. The results showed that there was a big problem which […]
Let’s Fix Probation
UNISON’s ‘Let’s Fix Probation Campaign’ aims to see the Probation Service taken out of civil service control and restored as a locally managed service, as was the case prior to Chris Grayling’s disastrous Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. Before 2014, probation was a successful, award winning service run by 35 independent Probation Trusts, each managed by a […]
Probation: Operation Protect
‘Operation Protect’ is the name for a new joint union Workloads Campaign in the Probation Service. The campaign was launched on 26 June 2023. Workloads for all staff across the Service are too high Staff are working under too much stress Public safety, our members’ health and wellbeing and the integrity of probation as a […]
Police Staff: Know Your Rights
If you are a member of police staff in England and Wales, don’t forget your rights at work. They come from the Police Staff Council Handbook* which forms the basis of your contract of employment*. This guide has been produced by UNISON, UNITE and GMB as the three trade unions which sit on the Police […]
Campaign for a Police Staff Long Service and Good Conduct Medal
Currently there is no long service and good conduct medal for police staff, which compares to the one awarded to police officers following 20 years of meritorious service. This is something that UNISON believes should be rectified. It should be noted that as well as police officers, fire, ambulance, probation and prison service personnel are […]
Police Post Incident Procedures: advice for members and reps
Our PIP Helpline offers 24 hour support to police staff members who are involved in incidents which are subject to post-incident procedures.
PCSO20 Campaign
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF POLICE COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICERS PCSO20 is the name for UNISON’s campaign to celebrate 20 years of Police Community Support Officers. July 2022 saw in the 20-year anniversary of Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) delivering neighbourhood policing. The PCSO role was created by the 2002 Police Reform Act and since that time […]